Bonner Durchmusterung +62°1446

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 608, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +62°1446, Giclas (G) 225-43, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 5307, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 78423, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 16923, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 875
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h0m35.802s, +61°39'41.94" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 77 light-years (24 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.1901%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -18, -32, 68
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -3.9, 56, 53
Proper motion: 0.462 arcsec/yr (274.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -36.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -21, -59, 7.5

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.99
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.13
Visual luminosity: 0.05 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.29, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.52
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.2 A.U.s

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.